Load Shifts, Rig Crashes On Route 22

April 09, 1985|The Morning Call

Emergency personnel work around tractor-trailer lying on its side on the Lehigh Valley Thruway at Easton where it crashed yesterday, blocking both lanes of the highway for several hours. Easton Detective Lex Wilkinson (below) donned a uniform to direct traffic after the crash. The driver, Kenneth Tungate, 24, of Charlestown, Ind., told police his 39,000-pound load of Formica sheeting shifted as he was driving east. Tungate and his passenger, Beth R. Carlisle of Scottsburg, Ind., were treated at Easton Hospital and released. Police charged Tungate with failure to secure his cargo properly. The accident happened at 8:24 a.m., half a mile east of the 4th Street interchange.